I should finish the story should I?
About a month ago, WX’s education agent called me. She wanted to set up a meeting to talk about this whole debacle. I agreed, we met at their office. Inside the room was WX, her education agent (let’s call her D), and D’s boss (let’s call him B). B is born and bred Australian, D is Chinese, but lives in Australia.
Start of the meeting. I explain my side of the story. It’s very hard, my voice quivers. One minute to digest. I continue, “Let me show you the text messages, there’s 9 pages.” D and B go through the messages. They’re clearly shocked. WX watches along, tired and oblivious to what is going on.
B explains to WX what she has done wrong. She nods, and asks a question to D. D sounds angry.
B asks me what I want. I tell them I never want to see or hear from WX ever again. Simple enough. I also ask for a spoken and written apology. (Legal eagles will be disappointed that I forgot to get a witness to sign, oh well)
At one stage during the meeting, I speak directly to WX. She continues to look at the table ignoring me. In my annoying voice I say, “Look, could you at least look at me while I am speaking to you!?”. I explain to her that what she did was criminal, that she could lose her visa if convicted by a court, and I would be most happy to take her to court if she continued to harass me.
That was it. One unceremonious meeting to end nearly two years of suffering. Seems too good to be true. Still feels that way.
This whole thing has changed the way I think about relationships with other people. I now fret over what punctuation to use in a text message because I think full stops ( . ) and exclamation marks ( ! ) can be misinterpreted. I am now much more aware of how I present to other people through what I write. Do I present as an annoying person? Is the frequency of text messages enough to make you go nuts? I now find it hard to initiate a text conversation with people, because I am so obsessed with what the other person thinks.
The pages of text messages now live in my bag. They are my scars, to show others my experiences. Beware of mainland Chinese people. Some of them will make you go crazy, and they will do anything it takes to get what they want. Just look at the current milk powder scandal.
On to happier days.
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